Hanya Yanagihara quotes

Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer, best known for her novel "A Little Life." Her works are recognized for their emotional intensity and exploration of trauma, friendship, and identity. She has received critical acclaim and numerous literary award nominations. Here are 4 of her quotes:

One of the things my editor and I did fight about...is the idea of how much a reader can take. To me you get nowhere second guessing how much can a reader stand and how much can she not. What a reader can always tell is when you are holding back for fear of offending them. I wanted there to be something too much about the violence in the book, but I also wanted there to be an exaggeration of everything, an exaggeration of love, of empathy, of pity, of horror. I wanted everything turned up a little too high...

Hanya Yanagihara

In some ways. I do want to do something very different with each book...I think this book is linked to the first but approaches it in a completely different way. The first book was much chillier, more remote. And intentionally so. I don't think it was a book that anyone loved and I didn't love it either. It was not a book that was meant to inspire love in the way that I think this one is.

Hanya Yanagihara

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

Hanya Yanagihara